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Hong Kong actor Gregory Wong jailed for 6 years, 2 months over Legco storming amid 2019 protests

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Hong Kong actor Gregory Wong Chung-yiu has been jailed for six years and two months for rioting in connection with the storming of the Legislative Council Complex at the height of the 2019 anti-government protests. Wong, 45, was among three political activists and 10 others appearing at West Kowloon Court on Saturday, with the prison … Read more

Back to ‘black box’? As China tightens access to court records, legal experts fear for future of judicial transparency

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The debate generated so much heat that Xu’s sentence was reduced to seven years with a fine of 300,000 yuan on appeal, and authorities eventually punished officials who were previously untouched in the scandal. The case was one of several in the past decade in which Chinese members of the public used the transparency in … Read more